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A minor point, but I've hated how postal addresses are always broken up into many fields. It'd be wonderful to be able to copy-n-paste a postal address as easy as an email or, as you said, license plate.

(I'm surprised that Google or Apple hasn't come up with an auto-parser for pasting in a contact's postal address and have it automatically segmented into street, city, zip.)

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That's because you can mail a letter with just a name and a zipcode if your name is unique enough. The city, state, and a description of the location also works.

There is some standardization of addresses but even those formats can be troublesome.

I wanted to show a single field for address, because it just seems so much more user friendly... but then I realized I also needed to filter users by state, and I thought better of trying to figure out how to parse the block of text.

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